Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, warm quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Warm Quinoa Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Warm Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook warm quinoa salad using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Warm Quinoa Salad:
- Make ready salad/ first version
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup yellow onion, finely diced
- Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 2 medium red bell peppers, finely diced
- Get 1/2 cup celery, chopped
- Get 2 cup water
- Prepare 1/4 tsp white pepper
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup quinoa
- Take 1/2 cup fresh parsley, chopped
- Prepare 10 kalamatta olives, sliced
- Make ready parmesan cheese, grated ( optional )
- Prepare salad/ second version. Use the ingredients from above adding these too
- Get 1 lb medium shrimp, cleaned and shelled
- Prepare 1 tsp lemon zest
- Make ready 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Steps to make Warm Quinoa Salad:
- In a deep skillet heat oil over medium heat.
- Add onions, peppers and celery. Cook 4 minutes or until onions turn translucent.
- Add in garlic, salt and pepper. Cook 1 minute.
- Add in water and bring to a boil. Stir in quinoa and cover. Reduce heat to simmer and cook 15 minutes.
- Place into a large serving bowl and mix in parsley and olives. Top each serving with grated cheese if you prefer.
- Serve warm.
- For version two. This is so easy to change up. You will cook the recipe in the exact same manner. Just toss in uncooked shrimp when water comes to a boil before adding in quinoa. Cover and simmer the same way. Same timing. Toss in lemon zest and juice when adding in parsley and olives.
- Recipe by taylor68too.
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